Impossible Presuppositions. On factivity, focus, and triviality

This paper analyzes certain restrictions on polarity focus marking in clauses embedded under emotive factive predicates. It argues that these restrictions arise because this configuration leads to a systematic presupposition failure in virtue of its focus value, which I call impossible presupposition. The main argument offered here supporting this approach involves some novel asymmetries with factive clauses in predicate doubling construction in Spanish. From a theoretical perspective, the larger agenda of this article is to provide new evidence that certain types of ungrammaticality are due to semantic-pragmatic factors, namely, logical triviality.

VALUE CREATION NETWORKING DIMENSION DOMINATION ON ENTREPRENEURIAL MARKETING BEHAVIOR: A PERSPECTIVE OVERVIEW OF COMPANIES MANAGED BY FOUNDERS AND PROFESSIONALS

The aim of this study is to fill the gap in the study of Entrepreneurial Marketing behaviour. Previous studies are found to be insufficient in determining the most dominant dimension that contributes to the differences in entrepreneurial marketing behaviour when implemented in companies with certain characteristics. Entrepreneurial marketing dimension in this study focuses on Growth Orientation, Opportunity Orientation, Total customer focus, Value creation Networking, Informal Market Analysis, Closeness to The Market, and whether those factors result in differences in the behaviour of founders and professionals in managing companies. The study was conducted on 406 business owners in 8 provinces in Indonesia. Snowball sampling was used to select the respondents from the overall company population in Indonesia, be it services or manufacturing company. The result of the study indicates that lower Entrepreneurial Marketing behaviour is found in companies managed by founders compared to companies managed by professionals. This study also contributes to findings on Value Creation Networking dimension that is proven to be the most dominant dimension in influencing Entrepreneurial Marketing behaviour, be it for founders or professionals in managing companies.

Design of Automated Moving Stage with Adaptive Focus System to Support Microscopy Image Stitching

Image stitching is a method to obtain high-resolution images through compositing several image elements using invariant pattern recognizing and matching between each image elements involved. This method can remove resolution restriction in digital microscopy imaging. This study aims to design automated stitching with adaptive focus mechanism to achieve high-quality final stitched image. We attach three-axis microscopic actuator into Olympus CX-21 light microscope. The actuator has been programmed to support image elements capture with adaptive focus ability to compensate focus plane changes due to unevenness object surface, inhomogeneous slide thickness and imperfection of preparation holder. Testing results show automated moving stage has horizontal step resolution 0.198±0.001 μm/step with hysteresis 5.99±1.09 μm and vertical step resolution 0.197±0.004 μm/step with hysteresis 2.36±1.28 μm at maximum speed 3,675μm/sec in 16 sub-division microstep setting value. Automated moving stage has also linear response with R2=0.999. Adaptive focus testing show satisfied optimum objective height locking stability using identical factor ε=95% for every objective application below 100x. Adaptive focus success stabilizes Zopt for every image element to generate final stitched image with homogenous focus value.

EIGHT LIMIT CYCLES AROUND A CENTER IN QUADRATIC HAMILTONIAN SYSTEM WITH THIRD-ORDER PERTURBATION

In this paper, we show that generic planar quadratic Hamiltonian systems with third degree polynomial perturbation can have eight small-amplitude limit cycles around a center. We use higher-order focus value computation to prove this result, which is equivalent to the computation of higher-order Melnikov functions. Previous results have shown, based on first-order and higher-order Melnikov functions, that planar quadratic Hamiltonian systems with third degree polynomial perturbation can have five or seven small-amplitude limit cycles around a center. The result given in this paper is a further improvement.

Design of a Video Processor Based on FPGA

The design of a kind of video processor with the function of auto-focusing is introduced in this paper. The video processor receives digital 8-bit YCbCr video signal. With a piece of DDR2 SDRAM as frame buffer, the video processor realizes the function of format conversion, frame up-scaling and color space conversion. The paper proposes an improved gray scale differential auto-focus algorithm and calculates the focus value of the current image real-timely. Applying the mountain climbing searching strategy to control the moving of the focus motor, and realize the function of auto-focusing. The whole design is realized in VHDL and verified with Xilinx XUPV5-LX110T FPGA developing board.

A NONLINEAR TRANSFORM BASED THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE RECOVERY FROM IMAGE FOCUS

The use of intelligent and sophisticated approaches in the domain of computer vision and pattern recognition is consistently increasing. This paper introduces a novel machine learning based approach for Shape From Focus (SFF), where the in-focus pixels are selected from a sequence of images. In contrast to computing focus values directly in spatial or transform domain, the proposed method first nonlinearly transforms the input space into feature space and then computes the focus value by transforming the data into eigenspace. First, the nonlinear transformation is performed by using kernel function and then Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is applied. This idea is also supported by the fact that out-of-focus is analogous to blurring and is a nonlinear phenomenon. An initial depth map is computed by maximizing the focus measure. To further refine the 3D shape, bilateral filter is applied. The proposed method is experimented using synthetic and real image sequences. The results demonstrate the effectiveness and the robustness of the new method.

The Student Motivation Scale: A Tool for Measuring and Enhancing Motivation

This paper assesses the psychometric properties of the Student Motivation Scale, an instrument measuring school students' motivation. Motivation is assessed through nine measures, separated into what are referred to as boosters and guzzlers. Boosters are constructs that reflect adaptive motivation and guzzlers are constructs that reflect less adaptive motivation. Boosters are subsumed by thoughts (self-belief, learning focus, value of schooling) and behaviours (persistence and planning and monitoring). Guzzlers are subsumed by thoughts or feelings (low control and anxiety) and behaviours (avoidance and self-sabotage). Data show that the Student Motivation Scale has a clear factor structure reflecting the hypothesised five boosters and four guzzlers, is reliable, and correlated with achievement. Gender and year level differences also emerge: girls are significantly more learning focused and engage in more planning and monitoring than boys; girls are significantly more anxious than boys; Year 9 students are significantly lower than Year 10 and Year 11 students in learning focus, significantly higher than Year 11 students in avoidance, and significantly higher than Year 10 and Year 11 students in self-sabotage. Strategies for intervention are discussed in the context of these findings and the issue of academic resilience is introduced as an additional aspect of motivation that the Student Motivation Scale is able to assess.